Fears for the ash as last jubilee tree is planted

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The Queen plants a tree to mark her Diamond Jubilee last yearArthur Edwards/The Sun

Oliver Moody

Published at 12:01AM, March 27 2013

The Princess Royal will plant the six millionth and final tree of the Woodland
Trust’s Jubilee Woods project at a school in west London today,
marking the end of the most ambitious project in the charity’s history. As
the scheme to begin restoring Britain’s forests comes to an end, the fight
against ash dieback has begun in earnest.

Landowners in a belt running across the west of England will be paid to
replace young ash trees with other species under government plans to deal
with the epidemic.

The Government delivered the grimmest prognosis for ash trees yet. The fungal
disease,